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So Long, Gun Week

I know what you’re thinking. It’s the weekend. Gun Week must be over, right? Or do we have one more post in the barrel, another celebration of video gaming’s obsession with firearms?


The Cases Of The Missing Bullets

If a video game contains guns, does it also contain bullets? Not necessarily. Well, not necessarily – get this – depending on your philosophical take on what it means for a bullet to exist.


In Real Life

Meet The Heavy

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Meet the Heavy and ignore for a minute his massive weight loss. Listen to his monologue about his gun, his wonderful, wonderful to-scale gun.


In Real Life

This Only Works In John Woo Movies

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If I learned anything from Unreal Tournament, it’s that two automatic pistols are better than one, and holding them sideways makes them fire faster. It’s two popular handgun fallacies in one!


September 3, 2010

Miniguns In The Desert: How Video Game Guns Are Made

In many genres, the gun is the point where the gamer meets the game, making it the single most important element in a given title. That makes the guys who make the guns important, too.


In Real Life

Gunfusion: The Doom Rickroll

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Sometimes, the obsession with guns in video games gets ridiculous. So we’re celebrating acts of “gunfusion”. Here we have the ultimate, unofficial Doom weapon, which we first highlighted in 2008.


In Real Life

Our Video Game Gun Rack

So many games, so many guns. Most are good, but some have to be the best, and it’s only the best that we’ve decided to hang on our Kotaku Gun Rack. Keep the crows off our porch.


The Man Who Invented Home Video Games Knew His Guns

The man who invented home video games may have known more about real guns than any other game creator in history. But, he tells Kotaku, that’s not why the first game console had a gun.


September 2, 2010
News

With This Gun, Your First-Person Shooters Can Surround You

In Dallas last month I spotted a big inflatable igloo. It had been erected by a company called Microvision on the exhibition floor at QuakeCon. Inside of it, I discovered, was a man holding this gun.


In Real Life

Out Of Ammo: Our Favourite Shooter Melee Weapons

Whether you’re serious low on ammo or just want to make someone’s life completely miserable, there’s nothing quite like bringing a hammer, crowbar or chainsaw to a gun fight. Here are some of our favourite gun alternatives.